What remains for you

What remains for you Ghassan Kanafani Publisher: The National Publishing and Distribution Type: Paperback, soft cover Publisher's note: This novel is a new experiment for Ghassan Kanafani in artistic construction and in the content of the novel. It benefited from the various transformations of the novel, from stream of consciousness narration, from temporal and spatial intertwinings, and from its artistic symbols. However, the most important aspect of the novel falls within the context of awareness and vision, as it aligns with (Men in the Sun) in rejecting escape and withdrawal from reality in search of illusory solutions, and makes resistance, in terms of practical action within the novel's context, an inevitable fate. The effects of tragedy among the Palestinians did not stop at a certain point; it is a hereditary, successive tragedy. As soon as they began to recover slightly from the consequences of the Nakba and its horrors, they suffered from the occupation of Gaza Strip following the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956. Ghassan Kanafani vividly depicted the impact of these successive tragic events on the life of a family that lost security, protection, and the protector and provider. The girl is assaulted by a treacherous, cowardly human, and if he marries her, he strips her of all meaning of human dignity, and he betrays the fighters to be executed. The young man had no choice but to withdraw through the desert in search of his mother in the West Bank, but this time he is surprised by the Israeli soldier, and confrontation becomes an inevitable fate. He disarms this arrogant soldier hiding behind power and seizes the water container, causing the soldier to die of thirst just as three of his compatriots died from heat and thirst in the reservoir in (Men in the Sun). The character shifted from a passive figure living under reactionary pressures to an active one who takes control of the action and determines his own fate and that of his enemy. At this moment, the clock strikes, announcing a new era, as his sister Maryam has stabbed her knife into the filthy, treacherous Zakaria’s body, avenging his vile deed, in a clear unity between resisting the enemy externally and the deformities of internal enemies.